SAS

SAS Software Site Licenses

SAS statistical software provides tools essential for mastering the four data-driven tasks common to virtually any application: data access, management, analysis, and presentation. All within an applications development environment.

SAS is apart of the NMSU ESB (enterprise software bundle).

The SAS site license allows NMSU employees to install SAS software on licensed NMSU owned computers. Only NMSU faculty, staff, and registered students may use the SAS software.

**SAS software may only be used for teaching, academic research purposes. Teaching and Researchpurposes are limited to classroom instruction and coursework directly related to customer’s post-secondary degree requirements, including the formulation of theses and dissertations, and NMSU employee’s noncommercial research activities. Software licensed for T&R purposes may be used by NMSU employees and Students

Use of the SAS software for profit, private gain, or other commercial use is illegal.**

Home use of SAS software is allowed on a home computer, property of an NMSU faculty/staff employee if the NMSU faculty/staff employee has a licensed SAS software copy installed on their NMSU owned office computer. NMSU/ICT must have a signed Home Use Agreement on file for each faculty/staff person using SAS software at home.

NMSU registered students may install a SAS to be used on their home computer. The NMSU student must sign a Student Home Use Agreement.

HOW CAN I GET A LICENSE AND THE SOFTWARE MEDIA?

You can sign the terms of use agreement and download SAS when you register on nmsu.onthehub.com.

SAS installation media is also available for check from the Information & Communication Technologies, located in the Hardman and Jacobs ULC, Room 105. An NMSU ID must be presented for all transactions.

Faculty/staff may borrow media for a period of five working days. If media is not Returned there will be a Charge of $50 to the index provided for faculty/staff or with personal fund for a student.

WHEN REGISTERING on nmsu.onthehub.com:

Enter your official NMSU email address in this format: username@nmsu.eduDO NOT enter a subdomain such as ad, cs, dacc, psl, etc. — which looks like this: username@dacc.nmsu.edu

Once registered you will receive an email so you can complete your registration. Once you have completed your registration you can purchase and download an installation on the web-store using a department index Number.

**Please keep record of the password your create for your account. The password you create on the web store is independent from your NMSU account password.**

HOW DO I GET UPDATE CODES?

SAS software requires that you install update codes annually. If update codes are not installed prior to October 1st each year, your SAS software will no longer work. Updates files will not be sent automatically, they must be requested. To request update files please email software@nmsu.edu and provide the SAS version you are using and whether your computer is a 32-bit or 64-bit system.

Update codes are available after September 1st each year. Send email to software@nmsu.edu to request update codes.